Democracies Quotes
143 quotes by 117 authors
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In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of…
— Roberto Unger
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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form…
— Christiane Amanpour
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The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a…
— Jonah Goldberg
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The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.
— Lionel Jospin
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Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain.…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right,…
— Christine Lagarde
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Inflation is the senility of democracies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and…
— Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
— Barney Frank
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To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
— David Frum
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These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.
— Noel Gallagher
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My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their…
— James F. Cooper
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As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth…
— Robert A. Dahl
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots -…
— Demosthenes
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Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
— Alan Dershowitz
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I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
— Chuck Hagel
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